S.I. No. 260/2009 - Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009.

2. The Electoral Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 156 of 2007

) are hereby amended by:—

(

a

) the substitution of the following article for article 4

“4. The prescribed photographic identification for the purposes of section 46(6)(

b

) of the

Electoral Act 1992

shall be

(i) a passport;

(ii) a driving licence;

(iii) an employee identity card containing a photograph;

(iv) a student identity card issued by an educational institution and containing a photograph;

(v) a bank card with a photograph;

(vi) a travel document containing name and photograph.”, and

(

b

) the substitution of the following article for article 8

“8. The specified documents for the purposes of section 111(2) of the

Electoral Act 1992

shall be

(i) a passport;

(ii) a driving licence;

(iii) an employee identity card containing a photograph;

(iv) a student identity card issued by an educational institution and containing a photograph;

(v) a travel document containing name and photograph;

(vi) a Bank or Savings or Credit Union book containing address in constituency or electoral area;

(vii) a cheque book;

(viii) a cheque card;

(ix) a credit card;

(x) a birth certificate;

(xi) a marriage certificate.

Items (vii) to (xi) shall be accompanied by a further document which establishes the address of the holder in the constituency or electoral area.”.

3. The Electoral (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (

S.I. No. 75 of 2009

) are hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

7 July 2009

JOHN GORMLEY.

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.

These regulations amend the list of specified identification documents which a voter may be required to produce at a polling station when voting and the list of documents one of which a person, when assenting to the nomination of a non-party candidate, must present to the person witnessing the required statutory declaration.

S.I. No. 260 of 2009

ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS 2009

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

10

th July

, 2009.

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 3, 46 and 111 of the

Electoral Act 1992

(No. 23 of 1992), hereby makes the following Regulations:-